Surprise surprise, as expected Garbutt was absolutely outstanding tonight.
And Leeds still haven't replaced him.

Crosby and Peteru will be sat in the stands tomorrow at Warrington so I think he's been replaced.

Barry Mac said he's one of best front rowers over here when fit. Bloody madness letting him go.

As good as he was & tbf he looked the fittest ive ever seen him it's 1 game.
He had plenty of good games for us but rarely seen the last 12,/18mths he was here.
We definately need at least 1/2,impact fwds but lets see how Merrin goes for us & how long MB can keep up last nights form before any overall judgement.

At least one of those is sat in the stand because he isn't good enough,never the case with Garbutt.
He did miss most of last season, but played most of 2017, and should have been retained imo.

without doubt should have been retained , we have far too many 2nd rowers and ordinary players , we could have saved 3 wages to pay Mitch . Ferris , Peteru , Donaldson , Walters , Crosby and Ormanroyd to name a few

Agreed

How would you have got rid of Ferres, Peteru, Waters and Ormondroyd can I ask? They was all under contract and nobody wanted them. You can add Mullally to the list also.

The new regime had to address the issue of injured players and Garbutt was a big culprit.

I agree Peteru isn't good enough but he is as good as Garbutt when sitting in the stand watching as Garbutt did during much of his time at Leeds.

Agree he looked good last night, maybe the change has been good for him. I imagine we go rid because we needed to free up some cap space and the others mentioned were never gonna go we got rid of the one who we could get an offer for. It’s a large rebuilding from McDermott mess and was never going to be sorted in one off season. Sort term might seem like a mistake but in the long run we will have to wait and see

Garbutt was injured and had an operation . All players get injuries , we had to risk keeping him on the basis when he played he was nearly always our best if not only strike forward . I await someone telling me who will do that job this season with the dross props (or 2nd rowers playing prop ) we have got .

Crosby and Peteru won't play so they will replace him. Garbutt has gone, good luck to him. Let's concentrate on players we have not ones we don't

Thoughts on Merrin signing?

Probably best to see what happens as the season unfolds. Before we make any judgements.

F*** sake let it go, he's gone, he's gone because he was lazy injured or faked injuries because he was a flat track bully with a attitude, who was on a wedge, that's why the club got rid of him. Cuthbo played most of last season with a bust hand and still kept going, still kept putting his hand up to play, Garbut ohh my areshole hurts I can't play. Cuthbo former MOS nominee dream team player, turned the game around against Cas still our best prop. Oledski one of brightest prospects in the game, Holroyd chomping at the bit, getting rid of Garbutt allowed us cap space for Hurrell and Merrin a SOO and Kangaroo forward. We are far stronger without him.

There was obviously a very good reason they let him go,but of course we all know better than Sinfield,Hetherington and Furner?